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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 4 months ago
Today Jack Straw is expected to announce a new amendment to the Constitutional Reform Bill that would allow life peers to renounce their peerages. There is one life peer who might well benefit from this opportunity. This is Peter Mandelson, who is...
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News Source: The Moultrie Observer
| 4 months ago
Michael Barrone notes, "Once upon a time, British and American politics seemed to operate in tandem. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to office, both supposedly little experienced and out of the mainstream, at about the same time. Tony Blair...
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News Source: Press TV
| 4 months ago
The controversy sounding Dr. David Kelly's death was first rekindled following a Daily Express report in June that revealed the expert was in the middle of writing a book containing damaging government secrets on the Iraq war as well as biological...
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News Source: The Day
| 4 months ago
Since British law requires a new general election within five years of the last one, there may be a change of government by June 2010...Blair also led Labour to triumphs in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. But now, after 12 consecutive years of...
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News Source: Israel National News
| 4 months ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Israel for a two-day visit with Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials. He is scheduled to speak in the Knesset and also will meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres and PA...
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News Source: The Independent
| 4 months ago
Eighteen months ago, Gordon Brown was forced through gritted teeth to say: "Tony Blair would be an excellent president." Then, as now, the Lisbon Treaty seemed likely to create the post of President of the European Council. Since then, the Irish...
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News Source: pakistantimes
| 4 months ago
The Prime Minister has advised the President to allow the provinces to process draft Provincial Governments Acts, 2009 and to make enabling amendments in their Local Government Ordinances for the dissolution of the local governments. The Prime...
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News Source: Novinite
| 4 months ago
Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, may have contracted swine flu and is being kept under observation. Photo by hr-romania.ro New calculations from the UK's Department of Health suggest that, in the worst-case scenario, 63 000 people in the country could die...
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News Source: The Hindu
| 4 months ago
Cherie Blair, wife of the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has become the most high-profile victim of suspected A(H1N1) flu in the U.K. which has claimed 29 deaths across the country so far...Blair was forced to cancel a number of engagements,...
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News Source: United Press International
| 4 months ago
The San Antonio Spurs have signed Pittsburgh power forward DeJuan Blair , their second round pick at the NBA Draft in June...San Antonio officials because Blair, the co-Big East Player of the Year last season, was expected to be chosen much earlier.